AIRPLANE! (1980) is HILARIOUS!! | FIRST TIME WATCHING | (reaction/commentary/review)

This film is actually outrageous...and I love it! Enjoy my reaction to Airplane!
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[@OneTrueWord]

I just wanna tell everyone in the comments: Good luck. We're all counting on you.

[@zavodila9279]

I just wanna tell everyone in this reply section: Good luck. We're all counting on you.

[@stephenkehl7158]

The Jive Lady (and she’s credited that way) was played be Barbara Billingsley, who was most famous for playing the mother on the late 50’s/early 60’s sitcom, “Leave It To Beaver,” and is an icon of conservative white suburban America. Her playing against type was one of the biggest jokes of the movie! She became friends with the two jive-speaking actors, who came up with the jive dialogue.

[@thecocoacouch]

There are so many layers to some of these jokes I missed because of obvious reasons but I appreciate it so much more with all the extra info Thankyou!

[@viewfromthehighchair9391]

That was the magic of the whole movie, actors playing against type. It was brilliant!!

[@mildredpierce4506]

I always love to see reactions to take my coffee black. It is one of the most reacted to scenes in the entire movie because it takes everyone by surprise because they’re children

[@thecocoacouch]

Um yeah look I couldn’t contain myself it was so out of left field 😂😂

[@willielarimer7170]

​@The Cocoa Couch notice it's a jet plane but the sound effects are from a prop plane?

[@ToniMcGinty]

The boy's reaction is priceless. Her face is all "yep, deal with it", and I couldn't even describe his face, there are so many layers to it. As a comedy actor, I've tried to recreate it many times. Just can't.

[@thecocoacouch]

@@ToniMcGinty You can't replicate it unless you genuinely feel what he felt in that moment to that comment 🤣🤣 Kids have it easier though with acting because they don't have to try at all to be completely irreverent. Adults carry so much baggage and insecurity or ego that it gets in the way. Not trying to sound creepy but thats why kids are so entertaining because they have no filter 🤣

[@ToniMcGinty]

@@thecocoacouch I absolutely agree. I work a lot with kids and I mostly find them hysterical.

[@ryanje8147]

"Excuse me stewardess. I speak jive." LOL

[@thecocoacouch]

That got me so good 😂😂😂

[@WithTwoFlakes]

My favourite story about Leslie Neilsen was that he was on an internal flight in the US back the 1980's. This was before 9/11 and increased security like the pilot's cabin door being locked etc. With the cabin crew's permission before take off, he popped his head in the cockpit and said to the crew "I just want to tell you both Good Luck, We're all counting on you." The crew couldn't stop laughing for several minutes. What a comedy genius that guy was...

[@MWSin1]

The funny thing was, he was a serious, dramatic actor before this. He discovered an entirely new love and talent with this film. And he didn't really change his acting style at all. The comedy pretty much all comes from him being completely serious while everything around him is completely ridiculous. "There’s nothing funnier than listening to a guy talk about something, and he’s very serious, very informed even; he comes across as intellectual and vitally interested in what he’s saying; and then there’s that moment when it dawns on you, ‘Wait a minute. I’ve been listening to a complete idiot!’" - Leslie Neilson

[@jamesfischer2427]

11:06 The "second cup of coffee" bit was from a popular TV commercial at the time. The woman (the same woman as in this movie) says she will have a second cup, but her husband wont. The husband says, "I think I will have a second cup." The wife says (in VO), "Jim never has a second cup at home." Then the announcer announces that the restaurant has secretly switched their usual coffee with brand X...

[@thecocoacouch]

Ahhh so it’s an inside joke for people who watched the movie around it’s release. I found I had to edit a few jokes out because I just didn’t get them until reading up like the one about “I haven’t felt this ill since we watched that Ronald Reagan movie…like yeah I’m 23 I ain’t getting that 😂

[@brianlanning836]

brand X... it was Folger's Crystals. lol

[@brianlanning836]

@@thecocoacouch The woman who was the Jive translator... that was Barbara Billingsley. She played the mother on Leave it to Beaver, which was a long running TV show about the perfect white American middle class family. So the fact that it was her made it more hilarious. Also, the guy who thought he was Ethyl Merman... that was actually Ethyl Merman. The co-pilot was actually Kareem Abdul Jabbar the famous basket ball player. The guy checking the oil on the plane under the hood... that was JJ from the TV show Good Times. The white zone/red zone couple who were arguing, that was the actual couple who recorded those messages for the Los Angeles airport. This movie totally took over American culture. I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out. The reactions from the audience were priceless.

[@jamesfischer2427]

@@brianlanning836 #NotSpon

[@carytakagawa2760]

@@brianlanning836 Also, the man in the cab was Howard Jarvis, a well-known lobbyist and politician who Proposition 13 in California two years before this movie came out. The scene at the end of the credits (which weren't reacted to) show him still in the cab, looks at his watch and says "well, I'll give him another 20 minutes but that's it!" The inside joke is that Jarvis would NEVER have paid such a charge in real life.

[@pvuccino]

Funny thing about the soldier who thought he was Ethel Merman is that was ACTUALLY Ethel Merman!

[@chrisleebowers]

6:40 "Im so confused, what is happening?" 7:14 "This feels like a *fever dream"* Although most of this movie is a nearly scene-for-scene parody of an older matinee disaster flick, ("Zero Hour!" 1957. It even has the exclamation point in the title.) there are a number of references to pop culture that was more contemporary at the time, like the Jaws bit at the beginning. This scene is a reference to "Saturday Night Fever" 1977.

[@thecocoacouch]

Ah cool! I’m likely going to watch a bunch more older iconic movies to get better educated so a lot of these references will be even funnier in future.

[@evilvolts]

also the Coffee joke was a popular coffee commercial at the time Jim never has a 2nd cup at home although the commercial didn't have a throw up scene they added that touch ]:P the lady speaking Jive was the mother from Leave it to Beaver.

[@sharkdentures3247]

Yeah, there are a LOT of "contemporary" jokes that most people under a certain age won't get. (and less will get in future decades) However, there are (thankfully) so many "universal" jokes to insure that this movie will continue to be hilarious for CENTURIES to come! (IMO) On that note, I think my favorite overall joke was Barbara Billingsly walking away angrily, "Jive @$$ fools ain't gots no brains anyhow!". So funny.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Can you believe those children in this movie are in their 50s by now?

[@thecocoacouch]

Makes me feel like a baby 😂

[@vahi37]

Same as here.

[@Lewis9700]

George Zipp was a parody of George Gipp, who was actually a great College Football player for Notre Dame in the 1920's. He was the team captain and was nicknamed "The Gipper". Tragically George became fatally ill at the end of the football season, and was on his deathbed before a big game. The Notre Dame head coach, Knute Rockne have a speech to his players, telling them to "win one for the Gipper". The reason that story was relevant in 1980 was that former actor Ronald Reagan was running for President, and one of his biggest roles was playing George Gipp, in the movie "Knute Rockne, All American."

[@thecocoacouch]

Ah I see. Thanks for the little history lesson! ☺️

[@Harv72b]

This movie came out in 1980. The dad jokes were still in diapers at that point. 😉 I see that a lot of the more dated jokes have already been explained to you in other comments. A few more would be that the copilot (Roger Murdoch) was in fact being played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a famous American basketball star who also did some acting. Airports in the 1970s really were a haven for various religious groups who would wander around looking for donations and conversions. The Mayo Clinic really is a well known (and very well regarded) hospital system in the United States, although its doctors don't typically have shelves filled with mayo(nnaise) in their offices. The patient at the mental hospital who "thought he was Ethel Merman" really _was_ Ethel Merman, a famous American actress and singer from the 1950s through the early 80s. And of course Ted Striker's flashbacks to his time in "the war" were clearly from World War 2, which he was far too young to have been a pilot in (even in 1980 he'd have had to be in his 50s or older).

[@rippedgenes]

@@robertbeneckson6501 That's gonna be a tough one.

[@thecocoacouch]

That’s hilarious 😂 still wish I was born then just to understand all the jokes myself.

[@0okamino]

And even Ted’s flashbacks were having flashbacks, as he was certainly too young for those earlier attempts at aviation. 😄

[@LadyIarConnacht]

@@thecocoacouch Was going to say just imagine all the silly jokes and cultural references you didn't catch because you never had to wade through the cult members at LAX or watch all the reruns of Leave it to Beaver, or see the coffee commercials, the endless parade of disaster movies like Airport, or the infamous commercials selling you stuff by an actor dressed like a doctor.

[@GeraldWalls]

@@thecocoacouch No you don't. No WWW (internet was between just a few government sites and universities, but had graduated from being DARPAnet), to find something you had to go to the library and look it up in the Card Catalog, video was broadcast/cable TV or VHS, etc. Graduated high school in 1981. Predate The Breakfast Club.

[@grosbeak6130]

The first book ever on this movie is coming out later this year in October, called; Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane. It is written by the director and producers of the film. We've all been waiting for this.

[@thecocoacouch]

Oh wow that’s awesome! Keen.

[@suebeawho6537]

Oh cool! TY for the info😀

[@Lewis9700]

5:32 - Boys Life was actually a popular magazine in the 70's and 80's. However there was no such magazine as "Nuns Life" 😄

[@thecocoacouch]

Hahaha 😂 that’s amazing

[@0okamino]

It’s published by the Boy Scouts of America, but now the magazine is titled Scout Life. Nuns’ Life was not published by the Nun Scouts of America… or as you said, at all. 😄

[@wiccantexan]

Johnny, the random comment guy ("Rapunzel!") is Stephen Stucker. He was from a sketch comedy troupe and known for his improv. In this movie, the writers gave him the straight lines for his scenes and let him write his character's off-the-wall responses.

[@PCLoadLetter]

The dog scene is hilarious. Shep is a labrador. They aren't even remotely vicious, but the barking of a less friendly breed was dubbed over for comedic effect, just to distract you from the mirror gag they were setting up!

[@DoctorVell]

FYI here is some trivia about the movie. The PA announcers did that for a living and married each other. The lady putting on the makeup was the Zucher brother's mom. If you look at the plane shots it sounds like a propeller plane, while it is a jet plane. This movie mainly used serious actors in their first comedy and loved doing it.

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha that’s so funny. I could tell they were dramatic actors, which made it even funnier. My favourite was easily the doctor though.

[@polkhigh2317]

i didnt know zucher mom one !!!! tks

[@toodlescae]

The Pilot (Cpt. Oveur/Peter Graves) was on Mission Impossible, the doctor (Leslie Nielsen) and the 2 guys in the tower (Robert Stack/The Untouchables & Lloyd Bridges) were all serious dramatic actors at the time. Seeing them in this goofball comedy made it twice as funny. The 2 guys speaking jive created the language for the movie themselves because the original script for the scene wasn't working. They then taught it to Barbara Billingsley fir her lines. It sounded so funny coming from the woman we all knew as the ultimate 50's suburban housewife on Leave It To Beaver. Ted literally boring people to death. Lol.

[@thecocoacouch]

😂😂😂 I told my parents I watched it and they balled 😂 I love it that much more now thank you for the insight.

[@toodlescae]

​@@thecocoacouch You're welcome. I saw this when it came out and some of the jokes are specific to the 70's decade that I grew up in. I was 19 when this came out.

[@edwardweaverling7312]

You didn't notice the jet airliner making propeller noises throughout the movie!😂

[@josesolismusic]

It's difficult for anyone who didn't live through the 70s to fully understand this movie. First of all, it's a spoof of a famous disaster movie franchise of the time, which started with the movie Airport in 1970. It was so famous they did Airport 1975, Airport 1977, and Airport 1979. This movie makes fun of SO many movie tropes and even commercials of the time. It's good that people still can find it funny without the overwhelming amount of references.

[@corkyduke8673]

No actually it's not a spoof of airplane disaster movies of the 70's. The script was purchased from a 50's movie called Zero Hour. It's a spoof of that movie with some of the exact same dialogue.

[@TheRatsCast]

The thing to remember; is when this movie came out, Airport was on it's 6 film. Airport was a series of Disaster Films going around Hollywood. There were The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, and more. Airplane wanted to make fun of all those types of films, but based it on the Airport films in general. The team that created this; went on to created the short-lived TV show, Police Films, which would later because the movie, The Naked Gun. Scary Movie would later take this idea; and do a take on, well, Scary Movies.

[@TheMoviePlanet]

False. There have only been 4 _Aiport_ movies. This film is mostly based on _Zero Hour!_ from 1957. The TV show is called _Police Squad,_ not _Police Films._

[@darryl1373]

If you liked this, you should definitely give the "Naked Gun" films a look! They star Leslie Nielsen who played the doctor in "Airplane".

[@thecocoacouch]

Will do!!!!!

[@adamskeans2515]

@@thecocoacouch you would also like Top Secret! with Val Kilmer, or Real Genius, also with Val

[@bryangarner671]

Wrongfully Accused is another good Leslie Nielson movie

[@byronbonsall]

This movie (and others like Blazing Saddles) are why Gen Xers are the way we are. Nothing phases us. 😜

[@thecocoacouch]

I can see why 😂 this is why I enjoy talking to people older than me more.

[@Hayseo]

Yep. There was a time when you could laugh at a joke without checking with the thought police to see if it was OK.

[@DavidB-2268]

*fazes

[@justjasyn292]

This is so true 😂

[@jtoland2333]

Got that right 😂

[@lordwalker71]

This is a spoof of some airplane disaster movies that were made in the 70's, they were called Airport, Airport 75,Airport 77 and Airport 79 the Concorde. The couple doing the airport announcements apparently worked at LAX doing them and were a couple in real life. I saw this in 1980 when it came out and I was 9 years old. There are references to other movies like Saturday night fever and from here to eternity. The two black men were speaking Jive which is a slang language created by black jazz musicians in the 1930's and it became popular again in the 70's. The old lady who speaks it is most famous for playing the mother on the 1950's sitcom leave it to Beaver which was known for being very wholesome which is why people found it so funny to see her speaking jive. The lady who is surprised by her husband asking for a second cup of coffee is a reference to a famous coffee commercial from the 70's. A couple of the questions the pilot asked the boy are references to movies with a homoerotic theme like the gladiator movie Spartacus and the movie midnight Express which took place in a Turkish prison.

[@thecocoacouch]

I know it’s satirical but unfortunately I couldn’t enjoy it to the extent maybe you could for example, but it’s still hilarious to me! 😂 love all the info I’m getting about it.

[@tracithomas6543]

@@thecocoacouch The homoerotic movie references stem from them being in the “cockpit”, IOW a bunch of dick-related references.

[@ferrisulf]

Great reaction. The lady with the eggs coming out of her mouth is one of the harder jokes to get. It's a play on words. They crack the egg and out flies a bird. She has bird flu (flew).

[@thecocoacouch]

Oh wow the dad joke of all dad jokes 😂😂

[@12pagani]

And I now just got this as well! Enlightened in humor once again

[@gmunden1]

The doctor, played by Leslie Nielsen, started his acting career in dramas. He didn't take many comedy roles until "Airplane!" The same for the other main characters in this film, which makes this film so funny.

[@thecocoacouch]

Yeah he was so good in this though 😂😂

[@gmunden1]

The funny part about these actors is that knowing their previous dramatic roles in TV and film, they are playing the comedic roles in "Airplane!" the same as their dramatic roles . Peter Graves, who plays the chief pilot, starred in the original "Mission Impossible " TV series. To watch him in "Airplane!" is hilarious. Barbara Billingsley, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, and several others are a hilarious turn from their TV and film personas.

[@neuralwarp]

He was the starship captain in Forbidden Planet

[@texashookem22]

There was a time when none of us took ourselves too seriously, we could ALL laugh at ourselves. So sad those days are gone and that freedom of laughter has been suppressed. Isn’t it so much better having fun??

[@suebeawho6537]

So true, so true😑

[@thecocoacouch]

Yeah for sure! It’s happening less often in movies for sure. That’s why I watch so much standup comedy. Seems to be the only place left to make fun of things.

[@johnhunt3071]

@@thecocoacouch Try watching British stand up comedian Bob Monkhouse. Some jokes will seem dated but he is worth a listen.

[@majorhemroid]

Comedians to watch for the ultimate in political incorrectness: Sam Kinison George Carlin Mitch Hedberg Rodney Dangerfield Bob Saget (non TV performances)

[@honuman39]

This. I feel like that's what's missing these days.

[@sweetwilly]

I just want to wish you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.

[@frederickseltzerjr2170]

There was a slew of airport disaster movies that aired during the 1970s, so this was a spoof of all of those movies. The Zucker brothers made this movie the huge success it was by using slapstick comedy. I remember this was the first movie that my parents allowed my older sister Debbie and myself to watch by ourselves. It was released in the theaters one week after my 9th birthday. So as a kid, I LOVED this movie. I'm glad youtube suggested your movie reaction tonight for a movie that brought back so many happy memories!

[@thecocoacouch]

What a movie to grow up watching! Lucky 😂 I wasn’t as well educated unfortunately. Thanks for watching ☺️

[@sca88]

In case no one said it yet, the beach scene was a parody from a 50's film 'From Here to Eternity'.

[@thecocoacouch]

Right, yeah I may end up seeing that.

[@mattyh2464]

That was the genius of the film...everything was a set up for a joke! Everything had a comedic pay-off!

[@thecocoacouch]

Was hard to keep up it was so hilarious 😂

[@arraymac227]

Notice the jars on the shelves at the Mayo Clinic...

[@michaelschroeck2254]

One of my favorite bits from this movie is the exterior shots of the jet as it flies but the sound is very obviously propeller blades !!

[@thecocoacouch]

😂😂😂 haha for real. So much detail in the jokes.

[@Lewis9700]

26:04 - Point-Counterpoint was actually a brief debate at the end of each episode of "60 Minutes" a popular news program in the US.

[@thecocoacouch]

Ahh okay 👌

[@randycarter2001]

The scene with he hysterical woman getting slapped was actually her idea. The directors went with it. The Jive talking woman is Barbara Billingsley aka June Cleaver, mother on the "Leave it to Beaver" TV series. Airplane is an almost shot for shot remake of a movie "Zero Hour" just funnier.

[@watermelon..baby12]

One of my favorite things that took me forever to notice is that he said "I'll be back in a minute" to the guy in the taxi and presumably never came back

[@ChotiMintus]

This was like one of the original parody movies. I remember watching it as a kid and lmao. Lol at watching you waiting for anything serious 😂😂

[@heatherdale5571]

My mom took me to see this at the drive-in when it came out. I was about 8yrs old. Best movie ever! 😆

[@BigGator5]

"Can you fly this plane, and land it?" "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Classic comedy. Laugh a minute and very quotable. Fun Fact: In a 2008 interview, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told the story of being on a European flight and asked to sit in an empty seat in the cockpit during takeoff so the crew could say they flew with Roger Murdoch. White-Red Zone Fact: Regarding the argument between announcers concerning the white and red zones at the airport, the producers hired the same voice artists who had made the real-world announcements at Los Angeles International Airport. At the real airport, the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only, and there's no stopping in the red zone (except for transit buses). They were also married to each other in real life. Casting Choice Fact: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker chose actors such as Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, and Leslie Nielsen because of their reputation for playing no-nonsense characters. Until this film, these actors had not done comedy, so their "straight-arrow" personas and line delivery made the satire in the movie all the more poignant and funny. Bridges was initially reluctant to take his role in the movie, but his sons persuaded him to do it.

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha thanks for the fun facts! Yeah this movie is hilarious. I love watching these older films and then when I tell my parents a whole new kind of conversation starts 😂😂

[@BigGator5]

You're welcome. The animated movies I suggested will spark additional conversations. Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍

[@simu31]

I'll add to this. Peter Graves read the script and turned it down flat. His wife then read the script and told him he had to do it.He didn't understand what was funny about the script (being a purely straight actor, it's understandable), but his wife understood that it was exactly because he's a straight actor playing a comedy role which made the part funny

[@paulinegallagher7821]

The line where Lloyd Bridges says maybe we should turn on the search lights and Robert Stack says 'No..that's just what they'll be expecting us to do'. Like he was suddenly the bad guy and that was a sudden reveal, i died laughing the first time i saw that.

[@thecocoacouch]

😆😆

[@chrispollard1772]

The only 1hr 28min dad joke. Also, although uncredited, the natives he's teaching basketball to are the Harlem Globetrotters.

[@geetee4459]

I saw this movie with college friends when it came out. We went back to someone's house for drinks afterwards and the (serious) movie this was based on was playing on TV lol #surreal

[@thecocoacouch]

I bet that would have been so much fun

[@jathygamer8746]

Cpt Oveur's wife was horsing around 🐴 Great react! 🎥 💓 🍿

[@thecocoacouch]

😂😂 nice. Thank you!!

[@mikealvarez2322]

Airplane is basically a parody on the movie AIRPORT. Within the movie there are several other movies that are parodied. For instance the bar scene music and dance is a parody on the movie SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. The beach scene parodies FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. To really appreciate this movie you have to be familiar with life in the 70s and 80s.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Ding ding ding. You win a prize. You’re correct. There is a joke about every 10 seconds in this movie.

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha why thank you 😂😂

[@Emilyhildegaard1]

The scene with the man on the phone and jars of mayonnaise behind him is a play on a famous clinic in the States called the Mayo Clinic. It was a phone call about a girl who needed a heart transplant, and the one jumping on his desk was the heart for her, LOL.

[@adrianhempfing2042]

Ah ... the Mayo Clinic . Of course , makes sense now lol. With the jars of Mayo I'm an Aussie and have heard of that hospital.

[@jameswoods4793]

I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction. So good to see Young people enjoying movies of my generation. You did pretty good catching the jokes. Recommend Airplane 2,Top Secret you will love the ballet scene, The Naked Gun, Hotshots Blazing Saddles,High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein.

[@thecocoacouch]

Ooooh Thankyou for all of these!!

[@neuralwarp]

​@@thecocoacouchYou'll love Young Fronkenstien.

[@jimamos7984]

The "fever dream" flashback is a parody of the movie Saturday Night Fever. And the jive-speaking scenes were parodying the "foreign speaking people needing a translator" trope from disaster movies of the time.

[@SoramimiKeiki]

The "He never takes a second cup at home", thought was a line from a coffee commercial, btw.

[@paulmartin2348]

First time watcher and great reaction. If you like this I agree with some of the comments below that you might enjoy "Blazing Saddles" as well as "The Naked Gun" movies. 😁

[@thecocoacouch]

For sure! Keen to see these movies.

[@mildredpierce4506]

@@thecocoacouch blazing saddles is a movie from the early 70s. When you watch it, remember it is a comedy. The reason why I say that is because humor is subjective. Based on your reaction to Airplane, I believe you will be able to see the humor in blazing saddles as it was meant to be. What I like to tell people is that it is a comedy so it’s OK to laugh.

[@davidmeir9348]

The actor playing the doctor (Leslie Nielsen) was a well known Canadian actor who, by that time had played for 25 years in mostly serious roles (Like Forbidden Planet and The Posseidon Adventure). But in his private life he always had been a goof who loved a good comedy and fart jokes and when he played Dr. Rummack, his deadpan delivery (one of his comedic calling card) of ridiculous lines made him an instant comic hero and from that moment on, he took to comedy where he had the most fun filming and never looked back (although he did from time to time played in more serious roles). When you think of like GIANTS of comedy like Robin Williams or Eddy Murphy, the name of Leslie Nielsen is always close to the top. The man was a comedy treasure. After Airplane, his most famous role is Inspector Frank Drebbin of the Police Squad. At first it was a tv show in 1982 that had 6 episodes before being cancelled, then they made a movie The Naked Gun in 1988 and two sequels. The team behind police squad and naked gun are the same people that did Airplane though Naked Gun has a more linear plot but Leslie Nielsen is front and center as the accident prone Police detective with the same deadpan delivery as in Airplane. Anything with Leslie Nielsen, even terrible and not very funny movies are elevated by his presence but the Naked Gun franchise (especially the first movie) is top tier comedy gold.

[@thecocoacouch]

I’m so keen to see those movies too! He was so good in Airplane 😂😂

[@mikefoster6018]

"To be honest, I've never been so scared. But at least I have a husband."

[@thecocoacouch]

😂😂

[@adrianhempfing2042]

Ouch that was a burn hard

[@duke613]

The window washer at 3:29 is none other than JJ Walker from "Good Times". Sitcom from the 70's

[@blacktronlego]

18:56 I'm sure he's playing with the dog, they just added growls and snarls to the sound afterwards. One of the things that makes this film so great is that everyone (except Johnny) plays it absolutely straight.

[@thecocoacouch]

Hahaha figured It may have just been okay fighting 😂

[@JC-es5un]

You definitely gotta check out “The Naked Gun” movie; Leslie Neilson (the doctor from Airplane) plays a detective. It’s comedy gold 👍

[@thecocoacouch]

Written it down!! ☺️

[@garyedwardgray7549]

What's amazing is how funny this movie still is, given how many dated references there are in it. Some commenters I've noticed have pointed out a few. For example, the inner monologue about the coffee comes from a popular commercial of the time. But there are so many more... 1) The proselytizing at airports was a thing in the early 80s; 2) The Mayo Clinic is certainly still around and famous today, but I think it was more well known back then; 3) you completely cut out the Tupperware Party, so I'm assuming you're unfamiliar with that; 4) lots of folks also don't know who Magic Johnson is (I'm guessing you don't since you cut that out); 5) the JJ Walker cameo (air maintenance guy) was hysterical; 6) the old lady speaking jive was known for playing one of those perfect little happy homemaker wives back in the 1960s (a show called Leave It To Beaver), so her speaking jive was hysterical; 7) most of the top cast members (except for the love interest) were known for playing serious parts (Leslie Neilsen - though he later became known for his comedy... this was his first comedic role, Peter Graves, Beau Bridges, Robert Stack, etc.)... if you don't grasp that, you miss the gravitas Airplane was trying to put forth in such a silly movie; 8) most folks now also don't get the Ethel Merman reference... that really was Ethel Merman, a famous entertainer back then, at the military hospital; 9) I've seen some reactors think the "smoking" ticket was just a cheap gag because you can't smoke on airplanes... you could back then; 10) even simple vocabulary, like the reference to the radar range... the person asking is presumably asking how far away the plane is on radar, but a lot of more modern folks (I'm old, LOL) don't realize that microwaves used to be called radar ranges when they first came out. And, not a reference lost in time, but still something most folks would miss (I did at first)... someone else mentioned it in the comments... the couple arguing over the PA system at the airport? That was an actual married couple, and they were, indeed, both PA announcers at LAX airport. And I'm sure I missed several other references in this comment. I practically wrote a damned book here... no way I remembered everything. Oh, in fact, just thought of another... the whole craziness in the background when Rex Kramer is driving... green screen technology was quite new then, they were purposefully just having ridiculous fun with it. It's just amazing that with SO MANY references lost to time that this movie remains as funny as it does. Imagine us old folks who watched it back then and got all the references. OMG, it was just uproarious! And because PG-13 didn't exist back then, and it wasn't QUITE raunchy enough to be R-rated, it meant anyone could go see it... parental guidance was merely "advised". And remember, back then we didn't have helicopter parents who watched over us like hawks. I'd leave my house at 8AM, tell my mom what I was doing and it was just, "ok, be home before dinner". So, if you went to this movie on a weekend you might very well see unaccompanied 10 or 15 year olds at it. Those were the days, hehehe.

[@laneneely1077]

Magic Johnson?

[@michaelfisher1395]

The man and woman over the loudspeakers in the airport were the actual airport announcers at LAX and were also a married couple. The man in the cab was not an actor. He was a well-known businessman from California who lobbied heavily to reign in government spending in California. It’s obscure, and you’d have to have been from California at that time to even know who he was, but the joke is that he just sits there allowing the tab to keep going up without doing anything. The black guys speaking jive, which they wrote themselves, was all a setup for the punchline of the older white woman speaking it as well and back to them. The actress was Barbara Billingsley. She played June Cleaver in the 1950’s TV show Leave It To Beaver and was the epitome of a white middleclass mother and housewife of that era. The woman who thinks to herself that her husband never has a second cup of coffee at home was an actress who did national coffee commercials - I think for Folgers - and that was always her catchphrase. Peter Graves (pilot), Leslie Neilson (doctor), Lloyd Bridges (air traffic controller) and Robert Stack (pilot in tower) were very famous and legendary dramatic actors who had done little to no comedy. Casting them in this movie and having them say and do such ridiculous things was SO out of character for them. That is what made it so funny. Peter Graves was the main character in the original TV series Mission Impossible, which the movies are based on. There is a reference to it in Airplane!2. Lloyd Bridges sons, actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges begged him to do this movie so they could laugh at him. It led to many more comedy roles for all of them. Lloyd Bridges was also in a couple of episodes of Seinfeld toward the end of his life. I’m not sure, but the horse in bed with the pilot’s wife might be a reference to The God Father. The ridiculous images in the background while Robert Stack is driving to the airport is making fun of the bad special effects used up till around that time whenever people are driving.

[@sdhartley74]

the guy checking the radar "about 2 more minutes, chief" is Jonathan Banks, aka Mike Ermantraut of Breaking Bad

[@thecocoacouch]

Oh for real? I haven’t seen breaking bad…yet. Actually gonna do a poll soon including that since I wanna start a patreon with a big show I haven’t seen.

[@llanitedave]

You can always tell when a reactor isn't a basketball fan!

[@thecocoacouch]

Or over the age of 23 😂👍

[@wilsonsmanz]

The scene with the black guys talking "jive" always make white people feel uncomfortable commenting on. But black people have no idea what those guys were saying either. The subtitles are not only for whites. The black guys literally invented that for this movie.

[@KazyReed]

So many people miss the "Mayo" clinic.

[@thecocoacouch]

Yeah what was up with that 😂😂

[@highstimulation2497]

also it really IS Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

[@claycassin8437]

You missed the last scene- It's after the very very last of the credits. It's just a short scene, but it's funny and actually part of the plot. Don't feel bad...it appears almost nobody knows about it anymore. Check it out!

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha yeah some pointed that out, amazing way to end that joke 😂

[@heatherdale5571]

Much of this movie is making references to other films and tropes, built from vaudeville and surrealism. It was a great way to grow up! 😀

[@heatherdale5571]

Also references to commercials and pop culture of the time. It's quite hilarious when you understand where it comes from. :😀

[@martinmayhew145]

The bar scene is parody on Saturday Night Fever. He was supposed to be John Travolta

[@PenneySounds]

The reason this moivie feels so strange is it's nearly a scene-for-scene and line-for-line remake of a movie from the 50s. That movie was meant to be a serious suspense film, but the directors of this movie saw it on TV and thought it was so cheesy that they actually bought the legal rights to remake it, and threw in as many jokes and sight gags as possible, and this was the result. Some of the funniest lines were in the original film and played straight.

[@kylem519]

such a classic! my family and i loved this movie

[@GoddessGirl2121]

This is one of my all time favorite movies just for its sheer ridiculousness and I love all of the reaction videos I’ve watched on it because all of you that have done one have such different reactions that it makes it fun to watch! I just found your channel recently so I’m going through and watching your videos in order from oldest to newest because you’re so much fun.

[@mildredpierce4506]

This movie wasn’t typical of 80s comedy but it was typical of directors Abrams Zucker and Abrams. Prior to Airplane, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen were all dramatic actors. This was their first comedy. “Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!)[5] is a 1980 American parody film written and directed by the brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams in their directorial debuts,[6] and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson.[6] It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows its plot and central characters,[7] also drawing many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in the Airport series. It is known for its use of surreal humor and fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns, gags, running jokes, and obscure humor.”

[@thecocoacouch]

Thanks for all the info 😂 so many interesting facts though I’ve heard today makes me appreciate it more.

[@mwilliams1330]

A little late to the game here, but most of the things have been explained. A lot of the jokes were related to older stars long forgotten, in the hospital the person thinking they were Ethel Merman, was actually Ethel, a popular singer from the 40's and on. The film was actually a remake /parody from a 50's classic Canadian TV movie 'Flight into Danger", the script of that movie was almost followed to the letter. It was also taking advantage of many 70's disaster big budget movies , the first of which was "Airport". In the 60 and 70's airports were filled with people asking for donations for different causes, thus the guys getting punched out for doing so. lol. Great reaction.

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha thanks for the xtra info! And thank you ☺️

[@annaolson4828]

An incident of mass food poisoning on a plane, much like the one in this movie, is the reason why airline pilots now have different meal options than the passengers on every flight.

[@shanespears73]

I loved watching your reaction to this movie.. And your reactions to all the jokes , so cute.

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha thanks!

[@geetee4459]

One of the funniest movies of all time.

[@damnimloomin]

8:57 That fish was very much alive and was very much a fresh water catfish 🤣 Also 11:10 she was in a famous commercial where she said the “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” so they cast her in the movie just for this line then she got to do the slapping freak out bit too 😂 my friends mom had to explain the coffee joke to me but it’s still funny without the whole context

[@thecocoacouch]

That’s actually hilarious 😂😂 my only wish is that I was a part of that generation to enjoy comedy to its full extent.

[@DaleKingProfile]

Actually it supposedly was just a coincidence that it was the same actress. They didn't know and she never told them. It was a commercial for Yuban if you want to search for it on KZbin

[@draculimpaler4507]

The second cup of coffee joke was reference to a tv commercial from the 70s and it was the actual woman from the commercials in this movie

[@highstimulation2497]

airport announcers, and the couple with the child and the second cup of coffee are references to real things.

[@edp5886]

When the little girl does the "fish face" that's what got her the part.

[@thecocoacouch]

Haha that’s hilarious! It’s such a simple face but works so well for the absurdity of the moment.

[@trevorgoddard2278]

I was going to try and explain some of the more obscure jokes, but others have beaten on most of the ones I know so I will finish with. It looks like I picked the wrong week to quit watching Airplane! reactions. Edit: I couldn't help myself. Having now done a search for the most comprehensive list of Airplane! jokes, I found a list of 223 jokes mostly without explanation, but they missed the longest running joke in the entire movie, the engine sound is for a propeller driven aircraft not a jet, And the ice cream microphone, and possibly a few more.

[@thomasn3882]

"They knew what they were getting into.... I say, let 'em crash...." Funniest line of the entire movie.

[@PCLoadLetter]

Leading into the bar scene, the voiceover said he was in the air force. But he was wearing navy dress whites. Easy to miss, but hilarious!

[@wompa70]

Some of those jokes that are sketchy today were sketchy then. That's what makes them so funny and memorable.

[@davidr1050]

Actress Lorna Patterson played Randi and that was her voice singing "River of Jordan".. :)

[@marklbetya]

I think the "Oh My Gosh!" count is now over 100 ;)

[@thecocoacouch]

It would have to be 😂😂

[@tomloft2000]

Surely you can't be serious.

[@johnchrysostomon6284]

Perhaps because we say "aeroplane" when this was released in Australia it was as "Flying High"

[@jtcash2005]

The speech that ends as "win just one for the Gipper" was Ronald Reagan's most famous movie line from 1940 when he portrayed a football player, George GIpp, in the "Knute Rockne Story". The real George Gipp supposedly said this speech to his coach Knute Rockne when Gipp was on his death bed.

[@thecocoacouch]

Dang. That’s some detail right there. Love that it was the doctor who said it though with such conviction 😂

[@0okamino]

Thus, the sound of the crowd cheering when Ted is walking out to go back to the cockpit.

[@jtcash2005]

They added an extra comic flair by making it "win one for the Zipper" instead of Gipper.

[@michaelcarey8388]

The bit about the woman's husband never having a second cup of coffee at home was a reference to an old popular series of coffee commercials.

[@billolsen4360]

2:40 Keeping the donor heart in the ashtray

[@UnclePengy]

"Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home..." This was a parody of a TV commercial for Yuban instant coffee, that was popular at this time. They even hired the actress from the commercials to play that woman.

[@dIggl3r]

Looks like you chose the right week to start watching that movie... 😉

[@erinpowell941]

Just remember, Oscar, movies like this were decades before political correctness. I watched this movie so many times, and going back to watch it now, I actually understand all the references and have seen all the movies, like Saturday Night Fever and From Here to Eternity that they parody, so it makes it funnier than when I was just a kid watching it. Still, it was hilarious and ridiculous fun in its time. It was a spoof of Airport, a dramatic series of movies.

[@DaveHof]

Thankfully this movie came out when people still understood humor, and no one was canceled for a joke.

[@thecocoacouch]

I know 🙄 i don’t even care though I wanna see heaps of movies like this

[@CaddyJim]

His stories bored her to death you said she's sleeping technically you're correct she's permanently sleeping 😮

[@thecocoacouch]

Hahaha yup 😂

[@allanbluzdude]

The actor who opens the microwave and says “About 2 more minutes chief “ is the actor that played Michael on Breaking Bad.

[@thecocoacouch]

Oh you’re kidding 😂😂 I still need to see that show.

[@fgrady1]

I’d recommend you watch the end credits of this film as well as the end credits of the Zucker Brothers’ “Naked Guns” films which made Leslie Nielsen a comedy star! There are so many WHAT DID THAT JUST SAY moments, you’ll want scroll them again and again!

[@flixandclips]

JUST REMEMBER, this has a PG rating! 1980 was amazing!!

[@ghidrah76]

I was 4 when this movie came out.. it’s my favorite comedy of all time as a kid and now 47 year old lol. This film never gets tired

[@stevenwheat3621]

The amount of "knee slappers", and how they keep a straight face makes this movie different than others.. Blazing Saddles is similar..

[@thecocoacouch]

“Knee slappers” is the perfect way to put the humour in this movie 😂 love dad jokes.

[@scottstallings5029]

WE LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ❤

[@anthonyrobertson2011]

This movie also pokes fun at a series of plane disater movies from the 70s which are mostly forgotten today. Why there's a nun with a guitar and a sick girl. I wouldn't miss them as a kid when they'd air on prime time tv in the late 70s. Today I probably couldn't sit through them.

[@CaddyJim]

The doctor is *Leslie Nelson* & he stars in a similar comedy called *(The Naked Gun)*

[@chrisberwick8169]

You should watch naked gun trilogy

[@thecocoacouch]

I’ll write it down! ☺️